Rajat Neogy launched Transition Magazine among writers at this university, where Isaac and the narrator lead a “paper revolution” in the novel All Our Names. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this university where Mugezi studies in the novel Abyssinian Chronicles. This alma mater of Peter Nazareth and Timothy Wangusa hosted a 1962 conference on anglophone writing organized by Es’kia Mphahlele (“um-pah-LEH-leh”).
ANSWER: Makerere University [or Makerere College; accept MAK or Makerere Conference; prompt on University of East Africa] (Dinaw Mengestu wrote All Our Names. The conference is also called the African Writers Conference.)
[10e] Austin Bukenya’s novel The People’s Bachelor satirizes Makerere under this leader, whose regime was fictionalized by Moses Isegawa’s Snakepit and Giles Foden’s The Last King of Scotland.
ANSWER: Idi Amin [or Idi Amin Dada or Idi Amin Dada Oumee]
[10m] In a Johannes Anyuru novel titled “A Storm Blew in from” this place, Idi Amin’s coup leads the pilot P. to be detained. Yusuf trades in the interior as Uncle Aziz’s debt slave in an Abdulrazak Gurnah novel titled for this place.
ANSWER: paradise [accept A Storm Blew in from Paradise; reject putative equivalents like “heaven”]
<Nick Jensen, World Literature>